Scope and Contents The principal correspondent is Admiral Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane. His letters, and others accompanying them, deal with smuggling (folios 1-11), the disposition of military and naval forces while Cochrane was blockading Ferrol in 1804-1805 (folios 18-25), matters relating to Cochrane's commands, 1806, 1810, 1814, in the West Indies and on the North American station (folios 26-41, 46-55), and the court-martial, 1823, of a Captain George Harris, in which Cochrane was involved...

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The papers consist of private letters from Charles Stuart to Henry Dundas, lst Viscount Melville, and to his friend William Dundas, the latter's nephew, with extensive enclosures, largely minutes and reports by Stuart, and copies of official correspondence and dispatches. The private correspondence contains particular detail on fiscal policies and the internal politics of the Bengal administration.

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The correspondence, which includes extensive memoranda and minutes, deals in considerable detail with the policies of the East India Company's Madras government towards the Raja of Tanjore, the question of the Tanjore and Arcot debts, and dynastic disputes in the royal house.

An original letter, with translation, of the Raja of Tanjore to Dundas (folios 123-137), is included in the Blackburne correspondence.

Scope and Contents The correspondence is semi-official in nature, consisting of reports by Keith on the dispositions of his ships, tactics, manning, armament, and stores, with many replies of the Lords Melville. Particular subjects include: attempts to block Boulogne harbour, and the use of Robert Fulton's new weapons, 1804; projected attacks on French ships in Atlantic harbours, 1812-1814; and much discussion of the activities of Sir Home Popham's squadron aiding Wellington's army and the Spanish guerillas...

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Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.

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Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.

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The subjects of the letters include the Peninsular War, East India Company affairs, and matters relating to many European countries.

Scope and Contents Many of the letters appear to have been addressed to John Wauchope, Writer to the Signet. Those of the 1st Viscount Melville are mainly drafts. The letters deal, among other matters, with family affairs, Scottish politics and appointments, the defence of Scotland, the affairs of the sons of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, and work done by Sir Francis Chantrey. Other papers include a draft petition in the name of the Scottish Representative Peers against the Bill for abolishing their election,...

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The contents are as follows:

(i) ‘Memorial representing ... the necessity of continuing the present duties on foreign linen and the bounties ... by the committee of the ... dealers in linen in the shire of Forfar’, etc., 1788; with a letter of George Dempster of Dunnichen, MP, supporting the memorial, 1788 (folio 1);

(ii) Memorial respecting the necessity of signing the oath of allegiance in Scotland, 1791 (folio 12).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Draft letters and memoranda of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, on Indian and naval affairs, the proceedings against the Duke of York, 1809, and family matters, 1794-1810, undated (folio 1); (ii) Letter, with copies of other correspondence, from Admiral Sir David Milne to Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, concerning intrusions of American fishermen into Canadian waters, and measures taken against them, 1818 (folio 48); (iii) Letters to Robert...

Scope and Contents The letters are largely concerned with applications for patronage, and home (especially Scottish) politics. Individual correspondents include: William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, Lord President Charles Hope, Lord Chief Commissioner William Adam and the 4th Duke of Atholl. Among the draft letters and papers of the 1st Viscount are: several memoranda on patronage matters addressed to William Pitt, 1799-1800, drafts of letters to the Duke of Portland, 1806, and...

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The correspondence, which includes lengthy memoranda and minutes by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell and others, deals in considerable detail with the political, civil, and military affairs of Madras, and covers such subjects as relations with the French, the Dutch, and the Indian Princes, finance, trade, army appointments, contracts, and topography.